Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] net/iavf: support flex desc metadata extraction

hi, haiyue > -Original Message- > From: Wang, Haiyue > Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 11:00 AM > To: Guo, Jia ; Wu, Jingjing ; > Zhang, Qi Z ; Xing, Beilei > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Guo, Jia > Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] net/iavf: support flex desc metadata

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] net/iavf: support flex desc metadata extraction

Hi Jeff, > -Original Message- > From: dev On Behalf Of Jeff Guo > Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 10:54 > To: Wu, Jingjing ; Zhang, Qi Z ; > Xing, Beilei > > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Guo, Jia > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] net/iavf: support flex desc metadat

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] net/iavf: support flex desc metadata extraction

Enable metadata extraction for flexible descriptors in AVF, that would allow network function directly get metadata without additional parsing which would reduce the CPU cost for VFs. The enabling metadata extractions involve the metadata of VLAN/IPv4/IPv6/IPv6-FLOW/TCP/OVS/ MPLS flexible descripto